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Law Times ��� March 25, 2013 Page 3 NEWS LSUC medal recipients announced Honourees include Greenspan, first aboriginal called to Ontario bar to the law society, is someone whose ���expand the firm and continue to do interwork ���has resulted in a different esting work.��� For Law Times The newest award is the distinguished Canada.��� The Lincoln Alexander Award, paralegal award. Created last year to he Law Society of Upper presented to an Ontario lawyer who recognize outstanding paralegals with Canada has announced has demonstrated a strong commit- a devotion to their profession and who the 10 members of the ment to the public and community demonstrate best practices in mentoring legal profession it will service, goes to Frank Walwyn of others, the award goes to Elaine Page of honour with the Law Society WeirFoulds LLP. He has been called Thornhill, Ont. She has her own practice medal this year. to the bars of many Caribbean na- where she provides a mix of services in At a ceremony at Osgoode Hall tions, including St. Kitts and Nevis, small claims, landlord and tenant, and this May, Treasurer Tom Conway Dominica, Anguilla, Antigua, and other matters. One of her most notable will present the Law Society medBarbuda, the British Virgin Islands, achievements, she says, ���was to be able to al to seven lawyers as well as the Belize, and Barbados. He���s known sit on the Superior Court of Justice rules Lincoln Alexander, Laura Legge for litigating commercial briefs in subcommittee��� where she helped redraft Award, and distinguished paraleCanada and the Caribbean. He���s the rules for the Small Claims Court. She���s gal awards. also a former president of the Cana- also co-owner of the Paralegal Resource Among the Law Society Medal dian Association of Black Lawyers Education Program, which comes in part recipients is Ralph Frayne, who and a member of the judicial ap- from her self-proclaimed ���passion for continues to practise law after 62 LT pointments advisory committee for mentoring and teaching.��� years and says he���s ���not contemappointments to the Ontario Court. plating retirement any time soon.��� The Laura Legge Award, in He has sat as a judge of the Small honour of the first woman elected Claims Court and is known for bencher of the law society and later helping young lawyers and his its treasurer, honours women pracwork in his hometown of St. Catharines, Ont., as president of the Veteran criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan is among this year���s recipients tising law who exemplify leadership. Photo: Al Gilbert, C.M. This year���s recipient is Marie Henein. Lincoln County Law Association, of the Law Society medal. ���Being a female in criminal law according to the law society. was a personal achievement for me,��� office every morning,��� he says, adding he ���I feel like this is the second best thing that���s ever happened to me,��� he says has ���no plans to retire.��� He continues to says Henein. Henein has had a prominent career in of the medal. The best thing was ���coming practise law at Gowling Lafleur HenderLaw Times will not be back to Canada from the war,��� but prac- son LLP while working closely with the criminal law and was one of the founders publishing next week of the Ontario Court of Appeal���s appellate tising law is ���the most stimulating thing in law society. duty counsel program. Medal recipient Daniel Chilcott has my life,��� he adds. but will return on ���It���s meaningful to me to win that parToronto-based lawyer Paul Copeland worked across Canada for nearly 60 years is a member of the Order of Canada and and is a member of the bars of Ontario ticular award and hopefully give some April 8, 2013. has been an advocate for social justice is- and Nova Scotia. He has been a bench- confidence to the young women in this Meanwhile, enjoy fresh sues throughout his career. He receives er and treasurer of the law society and profession to stick it out,��� she says. ���There the medal partly for his role in founding served as a judge of the Ontario High are so many pressures that push them out content on our web site at the Association in Defence of the Wrong- Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of of this profession.��� www.lawtimesnews.com After 21 years of practising law, Hely Convicted and co-founding the Law Justice, and the Superior Court of Justice. nein is proud to run her own firm, Henein Edward Greenspan receives the medal Union of Ontario. He says one achievement he���s most proud of was his role in for his work as a high-profile defence Hutchison LLP, and says she���s planning to putting a stop to the Toronto Police Asso- counsel. He also plays a big role in educiation���s endorsements of political candi- cating younger lawyers and holds honordates in elections. He also says he���s proud ary doctorates from the law society, Brock of his role in ���Canada declaring unconsti- University, and the University of Windsor. Another medal recipient is aboriginal tutional the provisions under the Immigration Act for dealing with people who rights lawyer Delia Opekokew, who was the first aboriginal woman called to the are designated security threats.��� Another medal recipient is former at- bars of Ontario and Saskatchewan. She���s torney general and Ontario chief justice a member of the Canoe Lake First NaRoy McMurtry. ���Most of my working life tion in Saskatchewan and is known in her has been in the public sector rather than hometown for successfully resolving the the practice of law,��� he says. He was the Canoe Lake Cree Nation land claim. She Post your position on attorney general of Ontario during the has also practised criminal and family law patriation of the Constitution and the in Ontario. Great rates. Great reach. Great results. The final medal recipient is Martha enactment of the Charter of Rights and Contact Sandy Shutt at sandra.shutt@thomsonreuters.com for details. Freedoms after ���more than 50 years of McCarthy, a lawyer involved in the landdebate,��� he notes. ���I enjoy coming to the mark case of M. v. H. and, who, according BY ANASTASIA MOSKVITINA T Happy Easter Recruiting? JobsInLaw 1/8 pg 3X.indd 1 2/15/11 4:22:11 PM IT���S BACK Fill out our short survey for a chance to win 1 of 5 Kobo mini e-readers! Canadian Lawyer���s most requested survey takes just minutes to complete at www.canadianlawyermag.com/surveys and will provide valuable information about what the nation���s lawyers are charging for many common transactions and legal services. Survey closes April 8, 2013. 2013 Survey_LT_Mar18_13.indd 1 www.lawtimesnews.com LEGAL FEES SURVEY 13-03-14 1:26 PM

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